Radeon R7 240 and Radeon 8500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R7 240 vs Radeon 8500
Radeon R7 240
930
Radeon 8500
6
Radeon R7 240
Radeon 8500
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name
Oland
R200
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
August 2001
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
N/A
None
Boost clock speed
780 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
275 MHz
Floating-point performance
499.2 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
950 million
60 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
-
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
14.00
2.200
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
64 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1150 MHz
550 MHz
Memory bandwidth
72 GB/s
8.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
8.1
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
1.4
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-